Virtustream and Intel Combine to Analyze Large Data Sets

This week Virtustream announced a collaboration with Intel to deliver HANA-Hadoop Managed Service for Big Data analytics. The partnership will help customers analyze large data sets in the cloud at high speed.

We are pleased to be collaborating with Virtustream on providing cloud based, enterprise class data management solutions with the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop together with SAP HANA,” said Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of the Datacenter Software Division at Intel. “Users will be able to run predictive analytics and generate real-time analytics on large data sets, including business data, social media and point of sale data, in the cloud – while ensuring the environment is secure, compliant, efficient and flexible.”

From our view of things, this collaboration could enhance Virtustream’s market position as an expert in migrating SAP applications to the cloud.

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